Course Overview
Description
This course is designed to teach you how to write your own Hyper-Text Mark-up Language pages (or HTML for short). This will not be a course on how to use
Netscape Composer, MacroMedia's Dreamweaver, Microsoft's FrontPage or any other fancy-dancey HTML editor. You will learn the importance of writing well written pages, so that you
can then use your fancy-dancey web page creator as an extra tool.
Course Objectives
You will ...
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Gain a basic understanding of the HTML mark-up language.
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Be able to write a web page that is browser independent.
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Gain an understanding of the importance of writing a page that complies to the W3C standards.
Necessary Software
We will be using only three basic pieces of software. A text editor, a web browser and a validator.
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1) An HTML Editor
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We will use a simple HTML editor for the majority of the course. An HTML editor is like a text editor on steroids. A text editor a program that only edits text. Window's
default text editor is NOTEPAD, Apple's default text editor is SIMPLETEXT. By comparison, Apple Works or Microsoft Word are word processors. An HTML editor is a text editor with
tools to make writing HTML easier. This would include extra tool bars and special scripts so you do not have to memorize all the HTML tags. I will have some suggestions for what
software to use depending on what type of computer you will be doing your class work on.
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2) A Web Browser
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A web browser is the software that renders HTML documents into something that everyone can read. The two most common browsers are Netscape Navigator and Microsoft's Internet
Explorer. But these are not the only browsers around. Once again, depending on what type of computer you will be doing your class work on, I will have a few suggestions.
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3) A Validator
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A validator is a program that will check your HTML documents to make sure that you have not made any mistakes. (Kind of like a spell and grammar checker for HTML documents.)
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